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THE IMMIGRANT QUEEN IBD

PETER TAYLOR GOOBY
TROUBADOR PUBLISHING LTD
10 / 2024
9781836280606
Inglés

Sinopsis

Hated as a foreigner, despised as a woman, I became First Lady of AthensAspasia falls passionately in love with Pericles, the leading statesman of Fifth Century Athens. Artists, writers and thinkers frequent her salon. She hides her past as a sex-worker, trafficked to the city, and becomes PericlesâÇÖ lover. Her writings attract the attention of Socrates, and she becomes the only woman to join his circle. She is known throughout the city for her beauty and wit and strives to become recognised as an intellectual alongside men.PericlesâÇÖ enemies attack him through Aspasia and charge her with blasphemy. As a foreigner she faces execution, but her impassioned address to the jury shames the city and saves her. Pericles is spellbound, they marry, and she becomes First Lady of Athens.Sparta besieges the city, plague breaks out and Pericles is once again in danger.The Immigrant Queenátells the true story of how Aspasia rose to become the First Lady of Athens and triumphed against all the odds.